Sentence Examples with the word reassessment

December 11, 2017All Dictionary

The Mahommedan zemindars were injured by the reassessment of the land revenue, which was carried through in the interests of the ryots, and the power of the zemindars was formidable, while that of the ryots was negligible; though it must be remembered that the peasantry as a whole gave no assistance to the mutineers.

This annual inquiry has sometimes been mistaken by careless passers-by for an annual reassessment of each ryot's holding.

The law, however, enabled provinces most heavily burdened by land tax to accelerate their portion of the survey, and to profit by the reassessment of the tax on the new basis.